David Davignon of Schneider, Davignon and Leone, Inc. met with the Rochester Conservation Commission on March 1 to discuss and address any further questions or comments regarding a Notice of Intent filing at 0 Clapp Road by William Clapp, Clapp Nominee Trust.
The 6-acre parcel is proposed for development of a single-family home by Clapp. Plans include a swimming pool and use of a driveway with two legal easements. The commissioners were pleased to see that the applicant and his engineering team had taken previously made suggestions for limiting the impact on riverfront areas jurisdictional to the commission.
Davignon explained that the driveway has been decreased and pulled farther away from the riverfront and that the easterly boundary of jurisdictional areas has been increased and is now 200 feet from the riverfront. He also indicated that more wetland buffer-zone space has been added. To ensure wetland areas remain undisturbed, Davignon said a border of boulders would be used.
In a related NOI filing for the same property seeking approval for lot clearing and site work within the riverfront area, Davignon said only a 20-square-foot area of riverfront would be impacted with no activity taking place in the buffer zones.
Both filings received orders of conditions.
In other business, a septic repair for 166 Alley Road owned by Patrick Ryan received a negative determination of applicability. The project was represented by Peter Lyons of Collins Engineering.
The next meeting of the Rochester Conservation Commission is scheduled for Tuesday, April 5, at 7:00 pm.
Rochester Conservation Commission
By Marilou Newell